My dreams are an integral part of each 24 hour
cycle. I don't view them in a voyeuristic sense, I see them as direct
experience. They are lived, not watched like TV. - Nick Bantock
I was watching a movie about, I think, the end of the world. Some sort
of apocalypse--a huge saga about lots of people with lots of stories. It
was apparently my idea, although I didn't write the screenplay, someone
else did, in about a day. I knew, though, that I had put it all in motion.
My parents were watching it on television and were very proud of me.
Another dream: Bob woke me up at 4:00 a.m. because his printer wasn't working.
He was wearing his hair long, in a sort of Prince Valiant cut, like he did
when we were first dating.
It turned out that the printer cable wasn't connected solidly; I connected it,
printed a test page, then went back to bed.
Another dream: We were sitting around the dining room table at my parents'
house, talking about the changes that were being made in travel, and
flying, specifically. I was saying that I wouldn't be allowed to take
my laptop anymore, and was considering other options, like a Blackberry.
I talked about how we were soon going to be required to disrobe completely
and be issued coveralls that everyone had to wear to fly.
I had gone in for my check-up mammogram, and it went very smoothly, quickly
and painlessly--too smoothly, I thought. I said something to the
technician, and she said, "Oh, you mean that we were supposed to be really
checking?" or something like that, as if if she had known that there really
might be something wrong, she would have done a more thorough job. I tried
to figure out if there was something different about me that might
account for why it was so painless, whether I was in a different part of
my menstrual cycle, for instance.